Blueberry Crumb Bars

If you happen to find some good blueberries but don’t feel like making a blueberry pie, try these Blueberry Crumb Bars. They’re outstanding! The original 13×9 inch recipe is on Epicurious, but I cut the recipe in half and made it in an 8 inch pan.

Preheat oven to 375°F. Line an 8 inch metal pan with foil and spray foil with cooking spray.

Pulse the flour, oats, sugar, salt, and cinnamon together in food processor bowl. Add butter and pulse until you get a coarse meal. Transfer 1 cup to a medium bowl and mix in the almonds. This will be the topping.

Is this a recipe that I could double and bake up in a 13×9 pan? I do love blueberries and would also think of doing cherries seeing that cherry season for us in the finger lakes is coming up soon. Thanks

Someone was asking about shipping cookies a couple of days ago. In my Christmas mailings, I include ones very similar to the apricot-orange shortbreads noted above and I’m told they arrive in excellent condition.

anna, thanks for the link i will have to give that one a try. but i must tell you i made the recipe i am asking about on the whim to take to work and share with coworkers and i have gotten tons of positive feedback. everyone raved, even people who said they don’t like apricots. today a friend ask me about the apricot bars as she remembered them from last year, that is what inspired me to look for it.

Maybe Fuzz will eat these as the jelly is just used to become the pie goo. Blueberries are supposed to be ready in about two weeks at our local pick-your-own berry farm. I think I’ll have to make this.

There was something strange with that apricot bar recipe and I didn’t write enough notes on it to remember exactly what was weird about it. Until I test it again, I can’t vouch for it. I’d given it a favorable review and so had someone else, but in looking at it later, it appeared to have a lot of sugar So until I re-test it, I can’t recommend it.

i had a comment not about these bars but a question about another recipe for fruit bars that i believe you removed. it was apricot fruit bars, the dried apricots were cut up and cooked then layered between a cookie like batter. is there anyway i could get the recipe again?

How did the dividing the crumbs for the base & topping work out? One of the Epicurious reviewers thought it shorted the base. The photo of your base looks fine. And why will you be the only one eating these? Don’t tell me Fuzz and Todd have an aversion to blueberries.

This recipe looked gorgeous in the new BA and here and I am simply mad about blueberries…we have had just amazing California blueberries at WF for the past almost three weeks now which is generally way too early for good ones. I have been eating about two pints a day!